Wa ga yado no noki ni shidakusa oitaredo koi wasurekusa miredo imada oizu

我が宿の軒にしだ草生ひたれど
恋忘れ草見れどいまだ生ひず

Roma-ji: Wa ga yado no noki ni shidakusa oitaredo koi wasurekusa miredo imada oizu
English Translation: At the eaves of my house
the shida grass has sprung up,
yet though I look for
the grass that makes one forget love,
it has not grown even now
Meaning: The shida grass has grown on the eaves of my house, but the forget-love grass, though I look for it, has not yet grown.
Commentary: Book Eleven Love Poems Ancient and Modern I 2475

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Expressing Feelings through Things"
Though shida grass grows on the eaves of the house, the forgetting grass that might free the speaker from the pain of love has not yet appeared, however much it is sought: the poem laments a love that cannot be forgotten. Entrusting a wish to the "forgetting" in the grass's name, it is a poem of quiet wit tinged with longing.
This is one of the poems "Expressing Feelings through Things," a love poem set upon grasses. Following the series on sedge, it places two grasses in contrast, the shida grass and the forgetting grass. Its design pairs a grass that has grown with one that has not.
The forgetting grass is the day lily, which was believed to make one forget sorrow when worn on the body; it appears in the Man'yoshu in poems such as those of Otomo no Tabito.
The author is unknown; according to the left note, the poem comes from the Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection. That collection is thought to contain both Hitomaro's own poems and poems by others that he recorded. Kakinomoto no Hitomaro was a court poet active in the reigns of Empress Jito and Emperor Monmu, and is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "wa ga yado no": "of my house." "Yado" means a house or its garden.
Second line, "noki ni shidakusa": the shida grass growing on the eaves, a kind of fern thought to be the noki-shinobu.
Third line, "oitaredo": "though it has grown." "Tare" is the perfective form of the continuative auxiliary "tari," and "do" is a concessive particle.
Fourth line, "koi wasurekusa": "the grass that makes one forget love," that is, the day lily, set against the shida grass that has grown.
Fifth line, "miredo imada oizu": "though I look, it has not yet grown." This hypermetric line of nine syllables closes with disappointment at the forgetting grass that will not grow however long awaited.
Author: Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection
Source: Manyoshu
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